Home grown : Food : The Rocky Mountain News
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- Home grown : Food : The Rocky Mountain News
- Fuel for thought
- Tamil Tigers Say Sri Lankan All-Party Talks Are `Peace Posture’
- Leyland set to fight Tata Ace, plans Gulf unit
- Morning business news
- New key traffic proposal.(HT SOUTH)
- Jamaica needs more local capitalists
Home grown : Food : The Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Mountain News – Jul 19, 2006
At the Boulder Farmers’ Market, New Moon fits right in with otherlocal growers who bring their just-picked produce straight from thefield. For many people, that’s the draw of the farmers’ market: knowingwhere their food comes from, who’s growing it and how it’s grown. “They like the atmosphere of the farmers’ market, being able toconnect with the grower,” says Pat Kendall, Food Science and HumanNutrition Specialist at Colorado State University CooperativeExtension. “They think the produce is better for them because it isfresher. But some farmers’ markets, particularly in Denver, often havevendors who sell other people’s goods, which have been trucked in fromCalifornia or elsewhere. Buying directly from local growers means theproduce comes from the community, and the money stays in thecommunity.
Fuel for thought
The Age – Jul 19, 2006
Dan Rule investigates. Paul Martin isn’t a chemical engineer; nor is he a researchscientist. In fact, offering me a seat in the front room of hisBrunswick home, the 30-year-old seems a pretty average bloke. Hefirmly shakes my hand; asks how my day was; insists I sample hishome brew. “I used to be a chef, mate,” he says, when asked about hisbackground. “I’ve never been to uni. Yet the unassuming Martin, who can’t help but admire his ownbrewing skills — “Not bad, eh?” he imparts after a healthyquaff from his stubby — is perhaps the country’s mostexperienced biodiesel engineer, and the author of the 2005instructional manual Biodiesel for the Small Producer… These days they’re not alone, as a growing number of driversbypass the bowser to manufacture their own biodiesel in backyards,sheds and small co-operative set-ups throughout Victoria, utilisingused cooking oils as their base ingredient. Indeed, what was once frowned upon by motoring groups as apotential risk to your engine and shunned by the mainstream as anovelty is gaining some small-scale momentum. While the biodiesel industry gradually creeps into the widermarketplace (there are now up to 69 commercial biodiesel outletsnationwide), a host of non-industry organisations have just asquickly emerged to share their own home-grown product. The Melbourne Biodiesel Club and its interstate equivalents, theSydney Biodiesel Users Group and Brisbane Biodiesel, host regularmeetings, information seminars and educational events, and boastrapid membership growth. Martin, who taught himself the production methodologies in thelate ’90s after researching biodiesel’s successful application inAustria and Germany, is an active member of the Melbourne club, andbelieves it’s time for people such as himself to share theirknowledge. “It’s about the dissemination of information,” he says. “Instead of just supplying biodiesel, people who’ve got theknowledge on how to do it, like myself, can teach others theprocesses.
Tamil Tigers Say Sri Lankan All-Party Talks Are `Peace Posture’
Bloomberg – Jul 19, 2006
Rajapakse's talks “have not wavered from taking a hard lineposition, promising little change to the traditional Sinhalaapproach to the Tamil national question,'' the LTTE said. Home-Grown Solution A political settlement in Sri Lanka must be a “home-grownsolution'' with the support of the people, Rajapakse said in anopening address to the talks, according to a government statementat the time. The meeting included representatives of politicalparties and a panel of experts on constitutional changes. The LTTE needs to respond to the people's expectations thata settlement is based on democratic values, political pluralismand the tolerance of dissent, Rajapakse said. The government hasinvited the LTTE to be part of the peace process, he said. “It is only by doing so that the aspirations of the Tamilpeople can be addressed, not through streams of blood andshattered limbs,'' Rajapakse said.
Leyland set to fight Tata Ace, plans Gulf unit
Times of India – Jul 19, 2006
After Hyundai, the home-grown Ashok Leyland is now evaluating
options of venturing into this fast-growing market to take on the might of Tata
Ace. The firm has shortlisted
around four probable partners for this venture from Asia and Europe and is
evaluating the product each company has to offer in the light truck
market. “We are not present in
the sub-7-tonne market today. We are evaluating models in the entire light
commercial vehicle spectrum, including a one-tonne model to be pitted against
Tata Ace,” Ashok Leyland COO Vinod Dasari
said. The firm, he said, is
open to both acquisition or a strategic JV for its foray into the LCV market.
Morning business news
rte.ie – Jul 19, 2006
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